"The liar wants to be believed, but lying undermines the foundation for credibility."

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Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.153, Broadview Press

Randal Marlin

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“I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time”

Source : ELLE Interview, www.elle.com. April 27, 2015.
“I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country...Then you go back from country into American music...and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.”
“[Time was] an accordion, all the air squeezed out of it as you grew old.”
“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.”
“It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.”
“Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.”
“I don't expect to win enough games to be put on NCAA probation. I just want to win enough to warrant an investigation.”
“Humanity lives in its fiction.”

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